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Mar 24, 2021
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Panda Face
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A nice self-released CDR of indie songwriter stuff from Lincoln, NE
Topics: indie, songwriter, DIY
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Mar 24, 2021
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Shadowed Veil
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I got this from Chaotic Noise Productions along with Expendable Citizen and the first Suppression demo, but that label isn't indicated anywhere on the cover. There's a similar overall crusty aesthetic and anarchist political bent to this, while sonically it's really something quite all its own; within the general approach of audio experimentation are some excellent noise tracks, cool use of samples, and some punk and even folkish elements. It's a bit disappointing that we didn't get more...
Topics: noise, punk, DIY, lo-fi, cassette
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Mar 24, 2021
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Mar 24, 2021
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Expendable Citizen
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Early Chaotic Noise Productions release of super lo-fi anarchist noise. Much of it sounds like a guy messing with radio static to be honest, but still kind of interesting.
Topics: noise, lo-fi, cassette, crust, DIY
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Mar 22, 2021
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Mar 22, 2021
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Another crazy compilation I assisted with. The rather cheeky concept, and I can't recall who came up with it, was the melding of powerviolence and HNW. In practice, we let the artists interpret this idea pretty freely. 17 artists in about 14 minutes.
Topics: noise, cassette, compilation
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Mar 22, 2021
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Mar 22, 2021
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(D)(B)(H) and Seeded Plain with Hal Rammel
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Ya know, I suspect this one's kind of a classic. I think it was gifted to me at some point by Bryan Day, a member of Seeded Plain and perhaps more importantly the proprietor of [Public Eyesore Records](http://www.publiceyesore.com/). Honestly, dude is fascinating. I've seen Seeded Plain live a few times and been present for a few other shows he's been involved with over several years before he moved out west and I kinda miss him and hope we get a chance to hang again some day. Anyway, if you...
Topics: electroacoustic, Avant Garde, improvisation
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Mar 22, 2021
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Mar 22, 2021
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Various Artists
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2xC-60 compilation put together by Igloo Martian in 2012; I helped with the duplicating. 50 were made. The Man From Ultra, The Noisettes, Igloo Martian, Stirner, Zreen Toyz, Subversive Intentions, Elizabeth Veldon, and Distant Trains.
Topics: noise, cassette, compilation
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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The Barfos and several of their homies. Another diverse one here, with experimental sound collages, noise-rock, noisecore, plain ol' noise, grind, bedroom indie, and even some honest to goodness pop-punk. No song titles listed, unfortunately.
Topics: compilation, cassette, DIY, lo-fi, punk, noise, cassette, Cesspool, Barfos
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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Fascist Insect and Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium
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A solid grindcore split
Topic: grindcore
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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Du Hexen Hase
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One 17-minute spaced out improvised track of electronic washes and minimal guitar. Cover art is a photo of emu against an overcast sky. No idea when it came out.
Topics: Du Hexen Hase, ambient, experimental
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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Cripple Bastards and Violent Headache
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Excellent material from both bands here. The Cripple Bastards side lists 44 song titles but as is the case with a lot of noisecore it's pretty useless to try to split them apart so it's all one file here. The VH side is more grindy but still raw as fuck. There's some wacked-out delay effect all over everything that's kind of distracting. Still pretty rad.
Topics: grindcore, noisecore, Violent Headache, Cripple Bastards
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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Naked Insects
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More from Naked Insects, released on E.F. Tapes
Topics: Naked Insects, noise, lo-fi, cassette, E.F. Tapes, DIY
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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Naked Insects
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Naked Insects was Mike Jerk doing fuckaround bedroom noise with casio and a trumpet. Fun shit, check it out.
Topics: noise, lo-fi, cassette, Naked Insects, DIY
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Mar 19, 2021
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Morbid Vomit
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An unreleased(?) 5-song rehearsal tape by Morbid Vomit from 1994 that they threw in the extra space on a trade.
Topics: lo-fi, punk, Morbid Vomit, DIY
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Mar 19, 2021
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Steveggs
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A solo project by Steveggs that seems to have been spurred by a spell of being stuck in bed sick and bored. Uneasy-listening ambient made up of echoed spoken vocals and improvised guitars recorded on a karaoke machine. Along similar lines as 3.2 or "Confused Everyday" from "You Are Afraid", plus a couple Pile Of Eggs outtakes and an early live noisecore set by Schnauzer thrown in to fill up extra space.
Topics: Steveggs, Pile Of Eggs, Egg Scab Radio, noise, ambient, lo-fi, DIY, cassette
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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Make It Stop
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I later got a second Make It Stop tape that included the same first four songs from the first tape, followed by the contents of _their_ side of the aforementioned Tub Of Noise split, and some live material (plus a note written on the back of a cash register receipt reading "Bill Zobel Noise Tapes Yeah!").
Topics: Make It Stop, sludge, noise, lo-fi, cassette, DIY
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Mar 19, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
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Make It Stop
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I first heard Make It Stop via the inclusion of the track "Breadfuck" on the Audio Terrorism compilation. It was one of my favorite things on that tape, so I wrote to them to see how I could get more of their stuff and told them how the track reminded me of early Swans. Got back this tape and a note saying "thanks for the comparison to Swans, they rule!". Make It Stop's sound is some great sludge-noise with lo-fi 4-track production; many of the tracks are instrumental,...
Topics: Make It Stop, noise, sludge, cassette, lo-fi, DIY
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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Sonic Disorder and Traci Lords Loves Noise
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A split tape between two absolute titans of 1990s Amerinoise. Very recommended.
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Topics: Sonic Disorder, Traci Lords Loves Noise, noise, noisecore, DIY, cassette
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Mar 18, 2021
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L.O.C.
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more from L.O.C.
Topics: L.O.C., noisecore, casio, lo-fi, noise, cassette
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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L.O.C.
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L.O.C. (Lord Of Cheese) was a one-man casio noisecore band. Skeptical of the idea of noisecore done on nothing but a cheap keyboard? Well the blown-out recording helps to keep it brutal, not to mention hilarious.
Topics: L.O.C., noisecore, casio, lo-fi, noise, cassette
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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Engorged With Blood
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Among the acquisitions from my used tape trawling at the old Cedar Falls Co-Op Records was this odd little item. Obviously the cool-looking cover was a factor in the decision to grab it. Musically it's a horny-on-main concoction of electronic drums, nicely grooving bass lines, gauzy washes of shoegazey guitars reminiscent of Curve, evoking deep-summer heat and steam rising from grates over humidity-glistened city streets at night, with a deep-voiced lead vocalist, mixed right up front, who...
Topics: cassette, Engorged With Blood, Romeo Void, Chrome, John Hanes
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Mar 18, 2021
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Compilation put together in 1995 by the infamous Y.A. Gadahn a.k.a. Aphasia a.k.a. Azzam the American. An intriguing mix of noise, grind, metal, and industrial. If anyone out there has the first volume, I'd love to hear it.
Topics: noise, grindcore, lo-fi, DIY, industrial
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Mar 18, 2021
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Sockeye
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One of my favorite Sockeye recordings. Tracks from it got re-used on other releases later but they don't compare to the experience of hearing this thing straight through. It's supposedly a live recording, though it's unclear whether there's any audience present besides Sockeye themselves - but they do a fine job of heckling themselves. The "stage banter" on this thing is utterly legendary, as are songs like "Your Dick Is A Junkie" and the band's skill at careening from one...
Topics: Sockeye, Wheelchair Full Of Old Men, tardcore, cassette, DIY, live
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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Another C-90 compilation, but much less on the heavy side than those I've posted recently. This is from 2011 on a label called Greentape and is more in the realm of bedroom lo-fi, casio, folky, acoustic, and the odd experimental track. It has a good bit of that '90s DIY lo-fi indie vibe. Names I recognize from elsewhere include Teaadora, Office Park, and (D)(B)(H). A nice mellow listen. I tried to even out the volume levels a bit but I didn't try very hard.
Topics: compilation, lo-fi, cassette, DIY, greentape
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Mar 18, 2021
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DAAS
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One of my favorite pastimes in the 1990s was hanging around Co-Op Records in Cedar Falls picking through the used cassette racks looking for stuff that looked interesting, especially anything that looked self-released or like a demo tape. Part of the reason for this was that I had a startling lack of ability to hold down a job consistently in those days so funds to spend on music were limited, and I could score a lot of these sorts of tapes there for as little as $2 each. But also, I was just...
Topics: DAAS, electronic, industrial, experimental
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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You-Billee
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A short 1995 goof-rock album from the Wheelchair Full Of Old Men camp, along similar lines as Boy In Love;.
Topics: wheelchair full of old men, tardcore, lo-fi, cassette, you-billee
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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I've a thing for 1990s noise-tape comps, and here is one of my favorites, only partly so for the fact that I'm on it. _Shroud_, like the Zyon label itself, focused on ambient noise rather than noisecore, and was also one of the best-produced examples of its genre; the copies were home-dubbed but still cleaner than usual due to some semi-professional production work, and the inserts were _color_ photocopies! Zyon was run by a guy known as Moth, based in Spokane, WA, and put this thing out in...
Topics: compilation, experimental, noise, ambient, cassette, DIY
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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Pile Of Eggs
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A classic Pile Of Eggs tape from 1994, featuring an actual live performance on side B. A diverse set of electronic-drums noisecore, lo-fi shit punk, trippy ambient noise experimentation, and overall silliness.
Topics: Pile Of Eggs, Steveggs, Egg Scab Radio, noise, noisecore
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Mar 18, 2021
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recordings from the first Zeitgeist Fest, held in Boone, IA in 2012
Topics: noise, live, experimental
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Mar 18, 2021
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The BassTurd
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Legendary, ridiculously prolific Austin goofball songwriter/rapper/electronicist The BassTurd a.k.a. Danny Ugly got his start in Iowa City with a few homemade cassettes and basement shows. There is nowhere near 131 songs on this one from 1996; actually only 50. They are all weird as fuck. There's a They Might Be Giants cover song too. Strap in and blast off for Planet Homo.
Topics: The BassTurd, lo-fi, casio
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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The BassTurd
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More of the bedroom goofball outsider casio vibes that characterized the early days of The BassTurd, before the hip-hop influences and overall cool-funny-guy persona he would eventually become known for. Songs with titles like "I Puked On Your Love Seat". Wesley Willis does backup vocals on "You're A Fucking Asshole".
Topics: The BassTurd, lo-fi, casio, Wesley Willis
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Mar 18, 2021
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Anti-vivisection/animal-testing compilation put together by some Canadian I don't know anything about. Some of the preachiest stuff I've ever had in my collection. Side A has mostly a hardcore, d-beat, oi kind of vibe; side B goes more peace-punk with poppier and folkier sounds. Political Asylum are particularly good and get five normal-song-length songs, and they remind a bit of early Midnight Oil or late D.O.A. with some tasty guitar work. The last and best track is by Chumbawumba, yes _that_...
Topics: punk, hardcore, animal rights
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Mar 16, 2021
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Sometime in the range of '96 to '98 me and my Angry Cops bandmates (Mike Hays, now a.k.a. Pythias Braswell, and Ben Echeverria, son of an art professor at University of Northern Iowa) trekked down to Rock Island because we heard Men's Recovery Project was playing at something called Sam's Cavern. MRP's set ended up lasting about 5 minutes due to a blown bass amp, but we also saw Thrones, MK-Ultra, and Race Traitor, and met some local kids who had a band called Paper Children, who immediately...
Topics: experimental, emo, screamo, Chelsea's Gone Under
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Mar 16, 2021
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Something from E.F. Tapes, the birthplace of the legendary Cock ESP. A drums/guitar-or-bass duo doing some primitive noisy improvisation. Nicely crunchy lo-fi recording, lamest insert E.F. ever did. Saw these guys play an E.F. showcase at The Red Sea in Minneapolis probably not long after this came out along with Wrong and The Amputease. My girlfriend I dragged along hated the whole thing. It was awesome.
Topics: E.F. Tapes, noise, experimental, improvisation, Bullet-Proof Vest
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Mar 16, 2021
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Here's a brand new one I just digitized last week! This 1995 tape was a solo side project of Matt from Morbid Vomit. Musically, it sounds a good bit like Morbid Vomit, but with "clean" vocals and more lyrics about weed. Kid Rock gets namechecked well before he'd hit the major labels. The songs ramble on a bit but if you're stoned enough it's all good fun.
Topics: punk, Broken Crutches, Morbid Vomit, Morbid Matt, cassette, DIY, homemade
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Mar 16, 2021
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Mar 16, 2021
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Scumbag punk, raw, sloppy, out-of-tune, drunk, rowdy, tossed-off, recorded live on a boombox, with lots of cover songs. Bloody toured with GG Allin, that's important and referenced a few times. That should all give you a fair idea what _most_ of this tape sounds like, although it starts off with a headfake consisting of karaoke covers of "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "White Christmas". There are a couple more karaoke tracks, and even some spoken word poetry towards the end. The...
Topics: bloody mess, punk, outlaw, cassette
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Mar 16, 2021
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A pretty fresh cassette EP of power electronics. I got this in a trade and know nothing about it really other than that it's pretty damn good. (Moist Tapes 2009.)
Topics: noise, power electronics, cassette
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The inaugural compilation of Be A Freak Records. There is a lot of seriously killer stuff on this one, It's a definite favorite. Another mix of 1990s noise, grindcore, punk, and general weirdness.
Topics: noise, grindcore, hardcore, lo-fi, cassette, billy nocera, be a freak
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Mar 16, 2021
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cassette compilation by Chaotic Noise Productions
Topics: noise, grindcore, cassette, lo-fi
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Here's the only other Aphasia release I'm aware of besides the E H I split. Someone had it up online re-titled "Music Of A Terrorist" a while back. A lot of it kind of just sounds like klutzy guitar or keyboard playing through a pile of distortion, but it's got its moments.
Topics: noise, aphasia
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Short compilation tape but together by Igloo Martian in 2011, only 10 copies made.
Topics: noise, experimental, music, Igloo Martian, Distant Trains, Julia Ladense, Moscatello, Tropixxx,...
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Mar 16, 2021
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Mar 16, 2021
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3.2 (Steveggs & Dreadhead)
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Good ol' 1990s tape weirdness from the legendary Steveggs. On this tape pretty much what happens is the Pile Of Eggs/Egg Scab Radio mastermind and a buddy identified as "Dreadhead" dropped some acid and started recording. The result is some ambient and techno-ish goofing, a few metal guitar riffs, and over it all Steveggs rambles incoherently through a pitch shifter. Nothing earth-shattering but kind of a fun ride.
Topics: noise, experimental, music, US, steveggs, egg scab radio, pile of eggs
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* 0005.woz *B 026 INVADER (DEKA VADER) A rather basic Space Invaders clone B 080 ASTEROYDER The name suggests an Asteroids clone but this is more of a Galaxian. Honestly kinda feels like a re-skin of Shooting Alien. *B 131 DIAMOND MINE "Cracked By The Intern And Chief Surgeon of Black Bag" B 130 MOON PATROL The whole dang crew is credited with this crack. I love Moon Patrol but I have a certain hate for the Apple II version. *B 100 CRIME WAVE "Broken by THE...
Topics: apple II, games
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"Cracked By The Penguin And The Intern/BB"
Topics: apple II, games
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"Broken by Apple Bandit of Pirates' Guild; Thanks: Apple Avenger"
Topics: apple II, games
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* 0002.woz A 003 SPACE QUARKS B 009 QUARK.LOGO B 002 UP B 006 PU B 056 SQ1 B 088 SQ2 I'm pretty sure all the above files comprise an uncredited crack of Broderbund's Space Quarks. SPACE QUARKS starts it up obviously and BLOADS the other files except, somehow, for PU. perhaps UP loads it. Weird. B 080 SHOOTING ALIEN a freeware game seemingly made by some kid for a hobby project and then gifted to their local user group. not bad for an arcade game made by some...
Topics: apple II, games
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Jan 27, 2021
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* 0001.woz *B 166 HARD HAT MACK! "Cracked by Mr. Krac-Man!" What cracks me up about this version of Hard Hat Mack is that the Fastloader screen says "HART HAT MACK!" and the figure of Mack is for some reason absent from the title screen. Mack gets 10 lives too, and I'm pretty sure he only gets 3 in the official version. *B 123 GALAXIAN "Broken by The Apple Addict with help from The Black Death" *B 139 PITFALL II *T 010 PITFALL II DOX "Cracked by...
Topics: apple II, games
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Cassette tape released on Egg Scab Radio 15
Topics: noise, noisecore
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Cassette compilation released on E.F. Tapes (Minneapolis) 1996
Topics: cassette, noise, DIY, lo-fi, improvisation, experimental, 1990s, E.F. Tapes
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1995 split cassette by Aphasia and E H I released by F.D.R. Recordings Tracks 1-5: Aphasia (side A) Tracks 6-13: E H I (side B)
Topics: noise, industrial, lo-fi, homemade, cassette
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Split cassette between Finland Subterraund and Wrong. Released 1995 by E.F. Tapes, Minneapolis MN USA. Tracks 1 - 13 side A (Finland Subterraund, except for the Wrong radio interview), the rest side B (Wrong). Jeph Jerman played drums on one of the Wrong tracks via mail collab.
Topics: cassette, noise, DIY, lo-fi, improvisation, experimental, 1990s, E.F. Tapes
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